... all taken last Sunday, shown in the order I took them, the first in Vauxhall Bridge Road, the next two from Vauxhall Bridge itself, and the last one in Vauxhall, outside the Railway Station there.

Click and enjoy:

Top left: Creative use of the law of perfectly focussed intervening foreground objects, in this case causing the crane - one of my local favourites, especially when folded up for the night like this – to become, I think, pleasingly blurred.

Top right: Hardly visible, but what an effect! Turner, eat your heart out. Through the late afternoon London mist and muck, the setting sun behind me picks out two distant cranes (one in particular), away in the City. I’m pretty sure that’s the Cheesegrater they’re working on.

Bottom left: A bit of a cheat, because not really a crane picture. It’s really Battersea Power Station with sun setting behind it. But cranes are involved.

Bottom right: The Replacement Crane itself, the one that has now replaced the one smashed into by a helicopter. With an elephant. And a castle. Even though this is not the Elephant and Castle.

They kept the crane tower, and only replaced the complicated stuff at the top. With another crane, which I also photoed. I hope (although I promise nothing) to do a posting that tells that whole story, or at least what I know of it.